State v. Smith

COYNE, Justice.

Defendant was found guilty by a district court jury of first-degree premeditated murder, Minn.Stat. § 609.185(1) (1982), and first-degree intentional murder in the commission of aggravated robbery, section 609.185(3), and he was sentenced by the trial court to a mandatory term of life in prison. On appeal, he claims (1) that the state failed to prove that he killed the victim or that he did so either with premeditation or with intent during the commission of an aggravated robbery, and (2) that he was denied a fair trial by (a) the prosecutor’s violation of the discovery rules,…